Kyl to Obama: Stop Whining
(CBS)
Asked what he thought about President Obama's State of the Union speech Wednesday night Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) told NPR earlier today that the text was too partisan and a stylistic bust.
"Well, you know, it's customary to say, well, the rhetoric was good, but maybe he needed more substance. That's the usual assessment of State of the Union speeches. I found this one to be A, too long, B, too political, and if he had an intention to reach out to Republicans, I can tell you it did not achieve the objective, nor did I think it was as much an assessment of the state of the nation or union as it was a political tirade."
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But Kyl - who likely shared Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's opinion of the president's speech - was just getting warmed up. Asked what he meant by political, he said:
"First of all, I would've thought by now he would've stopped blaming the Bush administration for the mess that he inherited. And I don't think that the American people want a whiner who says, woe is me. It was a terrible situation. And more than a year after he's sworn in, he's still complaining about the Bush administration."
Kyl's post-mortem followed the official script. In a blog post on its Web site, the Republican National Committee roundly dismissed the Obama speech as "another case of 'Do as I say, not as I do."
So much for a political cease-fire in Washington.
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What about Toyota USA?
What if King Abdul Aziz - the King of Saudi Arabia - bought Exxon-Mobil, an American company?
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All three were fine, until the republicans - specifically Reagan and Bush Jr - started "borrowing" money form those programs, instead of from the general fund, like they're supposed to.
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Kyl must blame Clinton....
We are still rightly blaming Hurricane Katrina for the devastation in Louisina, and are going to blame the Haitian earthquack for some time. These are the causes of long-lasting destruction. Underground gaps and aftershocks are to be found and felt for some time to come, all caused by those two initial forces. The Bush-Cheney storm lasted eight years, and was much more widespread in its effects. Stop blaming Bush-Cheney?? Are you serious?
He promised a lot of things - don't you remember?
He explicitly told us that he could undo what Bush had done. Did he not know what he was talking about? Did we elect an incompetent, ignorant fool who was LYING about knowing what he was gonna do?
Blaming Bush is for years when you don't have power and control. Blaming Bush was fine - in fact, I was with you that Bush was the root of all evil - when the Republicans had everything. But now the Dems have everything, and deliver NOTHING.
Just how much time do you think you HAVE? It's been A YEAR ALREADY. You're a quarter of the way DONE already! Stop whining and pick yourselves up and FIX THING!
That's the bottom line here.... the Republicans know that if the Democrats fix numerous problems, their party is DEAD for the next 25 years, at least.